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0282	Peking to Lhasa : vol.1

202 PEKING TO LHASA

here and no regular passenger boats. This, there-

fore, must be the head of navigation for these

parts. Most of the Chinese here wear a cloth like

a turban wound round the head, and now their

heads are generally shaved. A queue is very

rarely seen, though the Miao and the Lolos often

wear one.

On April 23 Pereira left Lao-ya-t'an and

marched 201- miles to P'u-erh-tu, 1253 feet. The

road lay down the narrow valley of the Ta-kuan

Ho still amid fine scenery, the hills of 1000 feet or

more being covered with vegetation. P'u-erh-tu

has 230 families. And here Pereira left the main

road to Sui Fu, and on April 24 crossed the Ta-kuan

Ho in three ferry-boats and made for Fu-kuan on

the Yangtze, some distance above Sui Fu. At

8 miles from the ferry he passed through the Eagle-

beak Gorge, and at 14/- miles reached Lan-pa, a

village of forty scattered farms, at an elevation of

3310 feet. The scenery was again beautiful. The

hills were more wooded, and some wild yellow

raspberries rather sour were picked.

A nearly uninhabited country was passed

through on the next day. For 13 miles only four

or five farms were seen. But after that there

were more farms and patches of cultivation. The

paved path led up the narrow Lan-pa valley, and

at 74. miles the top of the Ch'a-yen-so, 5360 feet,

was reached. This is the divide between the

Ta-kuan Ho and the Yangtze. The descent lay

down the narrow Ta Ho valley, and the path, passing

up and down along the hill-side, reaches Kuan-k'ou,

2720 feet, at 18,3i miles. This is a village of twenty-

four families.

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